Viruses and a Fast "Camera"

A computer virus won’t help your laptop work — but a biological virus could. Tweaking their genes just so could engineer viruses for making the rechargeable lithium ion batteries that power devices such as laptops, iPods and cell phones, researchers report online April 2 in Science.

Updated 7:50 a.m. PDT April 24 to specify that the infection was in the U.S.

SANFRANCISCO—The Conficker worm infected several hundred machines and critical medical equipment in an undisclosed number of U.S. hospitals recently, a security expert said on Thursday in a panel at the RSA security conference.

Their camera’s “shutter speed” is just a half a billionth of a second, and it can capture over six million images in a second continuously. More [here| http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/news.2009.412.html]